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Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character

Note 16 — CHAPTER THE FIRST.

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The truth is, in old English usage "bug" signifies a spectre or anything that is frightful. Thus in Henry VI., 3d Part, act v. sc. ii.--"For Warwick was a bug that feared us all."

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